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Mar 2, 1990
Singer/songwriter Luke Combs is born in Asheville, North Carolina. He earns the Country Music Association's New Artist of the Year award in 2018 and joins the Grand Ole Opry in 2019 while his debut album, "This One's For You," ties a record by spending 50 weeks at #1 on the Billboard country albums chart
Jul 27, 1990
Vocalist and mandolin player Cheyenne Kimball is born in Jacksonville, North Carolina. She joins Gloriana, a band that debuts with the 2009 "Wild At Heart," but quits abruptly via Twitter in July 2011
Feb 1, 1991
Johnny Paycheck appears in Asheville, North Carolina, in his first concert after serving a two-year prison hitch for shooting a man in an Ohio bar in December 1985
Jun 23, 1991
Skid Row plays the Charlotte Coliseum, where the kids down front include a former country singer: Jimmy Wayne
Jan 30, 1993
Bus driver Johnny Wiggins dies in a head-on car crash in North Carolina. Known as "The Singing Bus Driver," he drove Ernest Tubb's bus for 30 years, but dies before his children, John & Audrey Wiggins, net their first recording deal
May 22, 1993
Ricky Van Shelton sings the national anthem before the NASCAR race The Winston, won by Dale Earnhardt, at the Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina
Oct 9, 1993
Scotty McCreery is born in Garner, North Carolina. He wins "American Idol" in 2011, leading to the release of his first album, "Clear As Day," within months. He develops country hits with "Five More Minutes," "This Is It," "You Time" and "Damn Strait"
Dec 15, 1993
Tracy Lawrence shoots a racing video for "If The Good Die Young" at the Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina
Jun 28, 1994
Kellie Pickler receives a radio from her father in North Carolina for her eighth birthday. Her dad observes the day in jail
Jul 1, 1995
Rock & roll disc jockey Wolfman Jack dies of a heart attack in Belvedere, North Carolina. A pioneering, scratchy-voiced broadcaster, he was included 15 years prior in the lyrics of Don Williams' country hit "Good Ole Boys Like Me"
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